The zoo on Wednesday debuted its four female Western Santa Cruz Galapagos tortoise hatchlings, moving them to their public ...

PHILADELPHIA (WPVI) -- The Philadelphia Zoo is celebrating the mother tortoise and her babies that set a world record. The ...

The Western Santa Cruz Galapagos Tortoises are making international headlines. At nearly 100-years old, the mother, whose ...

It took nearly 100 years for a duo of endangered Philadelphia Zoo tortoises to become parents -- the time to name those hatchlings will be much, much shorter.

It is hard to tell the girls apart, so zookeepers put a little dot of different color nail polish on each of them.

For the first time in over 150 years, the Philadelphia Zoo has new additions to the Western Santa Cruz Galapagos tortoise ...

nearly 100-year-old Galapagos tortoises at the Philadelphia Zoo in the US have become first-time parents. The zoo said it was “overjoyed” at the arrival of the four hatchlings, the first in ...

Once the eggs were laid, Augustine said it was requested to have half female and half male. For these tortoises, the temperature during incubation determines the hatchlings’ sex. Before the ...